String-handling templates (help page) |
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Substring (select chunk of string by its position) |
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((str sub new)) | Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction. | ((str left)) | Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters. | ((str crop)) | Return all but the last N characters of a string. | ((str index)) | Return the N-th character of a string. |
| ((str right)) | Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string. | ((str rightc)) | Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty. | ((str sub old)) | Return substring of given length starting at N-th character. |
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Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type) |
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Select/remove specific item from string |
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| ((ship prefix)) | Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names). | ((title year)) | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any. | ((title decade)) | Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any. | ((title number)) | Returns any number from a pagename. |
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Insertion, replacement and length |
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((loop)) | Repeat character string a specified number of times. | ((replace)) | Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string. | ((str rep)) | Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string. | ((digits)) | Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9 | ((Nowiki)) | Displays wikitext as plain text. |
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((str len)) | Returns a string's length. | ((str ≥ len)) | Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length. | ((str ≤ len)) | Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length. | ((str ≠ len)) | Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length. |
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Analysis and searching |
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((str startswith)) ((str endswith)) | Check if a string starts or ends with a given string. | ((str find)), ((strfind short)) | Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string. | ((in string)) | Returns optional string when given string is not found | ((str count)) | Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string. |
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((a or an)) | Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel. | ((Array)) | Array manipulation and retrieval. | ((Isnumeric)) | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric. | ((str letter)) | Returns the number of letters that begin a string. | ((str number)) | Returns the number of numbers that begin a string. |
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Modules and built-in functions |
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